Review: 'Love You To Death'

Film: Love You To Death (Hinglish)

Director: Rafeeq Ellias

Cast: Yuki Ellias, Sheeba Chaddha, Nicholas Brown, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Suhasini Mulay, Sohrab Ardeshir and others

Rating:  **

 

Love You To Death revolves around Sonia (Yuki Ellias), a rich heiress, and her husband Atul ‘mamma’s-boy’ Sinha (Chandan Roy Sanyal) who married the spiritual, environment and canine loving social princess for her money. LYTD is a Hinglish drama that boasts of multiple characters with quirky personalities and strange fetishes but keep your expectations low, they don’t bring much to the film. 

 

Atul is after Sonia’s land in Surat to set up a factory and make it big by entering into business with a Russian-Israeli arms dealer. But Sonia, who has no interest in making money, wants the land to be used for a solar plant project after being influenced by an environmentalist name John (Nicholas Brown) who becomes the ‘woh’ in the ‘pati, patni aur woh’ equation. One thing leads to another and Atul decides that the only way to get hold of the land is by killing Sonia.

 

Now into this mix, throw in is an action video games-obsessed mother-in-law, wildlife-loving poet father-in-law, a yuppie tarot card reader, and a sexologist by day and rockstar by night. Oh and of course, a dog named Baby.

 

The PR machinery has gone ahead to call LYTD a “comic-thriller”. It is only mildly comic and not thrilling at all. Many characters are haphazardly thrown about, but the director fails to build on them even after giving them their stories that run parallel to the central plot.

 

The performances are decent. Ellias’ rich bimbette act is fun and good for a few laughs, and Sanyal as the money-crazed chauvinist has his funny moments but none of them stand out as most of the jokes fall flat. Sohrab Ardeshir’s rockstar act in the song ‘Get it up’ can only be termed as ‘trying too hard’.

 

There are also strange and senseless references to the importance of war and peace and you would think it would carry some significance in the larger scheme of things as the film progresses, but it does not.

 

LYTD is funny in bits, but mostly drags. On the whole, it’s average, best avoided.